Kingston
Publications
Kingston, J.D. (in press) Shifting Adaptive Landscapes: Progress and Challenges in Reconstructing Early Hominid Environments. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology Dec ‘07. (pdf abstract)
Carlson, B. and Kingston, J.D., (2007) Docosahexaenoic Acid Biosynthesis and Dietary Contingency: Encephalization Without Aquatic Constraint. American Journal of Human Biology 19:585-588. (pdf file)
Kingston, J.D., Deino, A., Hill, A. and Edgar, R. (in press). Astronomically forced climate change in the Kenyan Rift Valley 2.7-2.55 Ma: Implications for the evolution of early hominin ecosystems. Journal of Human Evolution.(pdf galley)
Kingston, J.D. and Harrison, T. (2007) Isotopic dietary reconstructions of Pliocene herbivores at Laetoli: Implications for early hominin evolution. Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology 243:272-306.(pdf file)
Carlson, B. and Kingston, J.D., (2007) DHA, the aquatic diet, and hominin encephalization: Difficulties in establishing evolutionary links. American Journal of Human Biology 19:132-141.
Kingston, J.D. and Harrison, T. (in press) Isotopic dietary reconstructions of Pliocene herbivores at Laetoli: Implications for early hominin evolution. Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology.(pdf file)
Turner, B.L., Edwards, J.L., Quinn, E.A., Kingston, J.D., Van Gerven, D.P. (in press) Age-related variation in isotopic indicators of diet at medieval Kulubnarti, Sudanese Nubia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.(pdf file)
Bishop, L.C., Plummer, T.W., Ferraro, J.V., Braun, D., Ditchfield, P. W., Hertel, F., Kingston, J.D., Hicks, J. and R. Potts (in press) Recent research into Oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya. African Archaeological Review. (pdf file)
Deino, A., Kingston, J.D., Glenn, J., Hill, A., and Edgar, R. (2006) Precessional forcing of lacustrine sedimentation in the late Cenozoic Chemeron Basin, Central Kenya Rift, and calibration of the Gauss/Matuyama boundary. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 247:41-60. (pdf file)
Kingston, J.D. (2005) Orbital controls on seasonality in Brockman, D.K. & van Schaik, C.P. (eds) Seasonality in Primates: Studies of living and extinct human and non-human Primates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 519-542. (pdf file)
Turner, B.L., Kingston, J.D., and Milanich, J. (2005) Isotopic Evidence of Lifelong Status during the Weeden Island and Suwanee Valley Periods in North Florida. Southeastern Archaeology 24(2): 121-136.(pdf file)
Kingston, J.D. and Hill, A. (2005) When it rains it pours: legends and truths of East African Pluvials in Lieberman, D., Smith, R., and Kelley, J. (eds), Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate and Mammal Evolution. American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series, 5. Hague: Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 189-205.(pdf file)Kingston, J. D., Jacobs, B. F., Hill, A. & Deino, A. L. (2002). Stratigraphy, age and environments of the late Miocene Mpesida Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42, 95-116. (pdf file)
Behenrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A. L., Hill, A., Kingston, J. D. & Saunders, J. J. (2002). Geology and geochronology of the middle Miocene Kipsaramon site complex, Muruyur Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42, 11-38. (pdf file)
Hill, A., Leakey, M., Kingston, J. & Ward, S. (2002). New cercopithecoids and a hominoid from 12.5 Ma in the Tugen Hills succession, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42, 75-93. (pdf file)
Kingston, J.D. (1999) Environmental determinants in early hominid evolution: Issues and evidence from the Tugen Hills, Kenya. In P. Andrews & P. Banham (eds.) Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution: a tribute to Bill Bishop. Geological Society. London, 69-84.
Bishop, L., Hill, A., and Kingston, J.D. (1999) Palaeoecology of Suidae from the Tugen Hills, Baringo, Kenya In P. Andrews & P. Banham (eds.) Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution: a tribute to Bill Bishop. Geological Society. London, 99-111.
Jacobs, B.F., Kingston, J.D., and Jacobs, L. (1999) Evolution of grass dominated ecosystems. In E.M. Friis, K.R. Pedersen, and P.R. Crane (eds): The origin of modern terrestrial ecosystems: Fossils, phylogeny and biogeography. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86(2): 590-643.
Kingston, J.D. (1999) Isotopes and environments of the Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In P.J. Whybrow and A. Hill (eds.): Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 354-372.
Kingston, J.D. and Hill, A. (1999) Late Miocene paleoenvironments in Arabia: A synthesis. In P.J. Whybrow and A. Hill (eds.): Fossil vertebrates of Arabia. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 389-407.
Whybrow, P.J., Hill, A., and Kingston, J.D. (1999) Late Miocene fauna and environments of the Baynunah Formation: Emirate of Abu Dhabi (Western Region), United Arab Emirates. Journal of the Faculty of Science: U.A.E. University, 10(1):120-145.
Gebo, D.L., MacLatchy, L., Kityo, R., Deino, A., Kingston, J., and Pilbeam, D. (1997). A Hominoid genus from the early Miocene of Uganda. Science 276:401-404. (pdf file)
McBrearty, S., Bishop, L., and Kingston, J.D. (1996) Variability in traces of Middle Pleistocene hominid behavior in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 30: 563-580. (pdf file)
Morgan, M.E., Kingston, J.D., and Marino, B.D. (1994) Expansion and emergence of C4 plants. Nature 371:112-113. (pdf file)
Kingston, J.D., Marino, B.D., and Hill, A.P. (1994) Isotopic evidence for Neogene hominid paleoenvironments in the Kenya Rift Valley. Science 264: 955-959. (pdf file)
Morgan, M.E., Kingston, J.D., and Marino, B.D. (1994) Carbon isotopic evidence for the emergence of C4 plants in the Neogene from Pakistan and Kenya. Nature 367: 162-165. (pdf file)
Schoeninger, M.J., Moore, K.M., Murray, M.L., and Kingston, J.D., (1989). Detection of bone preservation in archaeological and fossil samples, Journal of Applied Geochemistry 4: 281-292.
Kingston, J.D., 1985, Geology of the Lamoine Quadrangle (1:24,000), Shasta Co., California, U.S. Geological Survey open files.
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